Bowdon Burial January 1873 - Emma Rigby

[ShaunJ]

Thanks anyway, Leslie. It was very kind of you to go and take a look.

[julie5795]

Hi

I have also been researching the Warburton Whiteheads and know of Emma, who was in effect my grandfather's aunt! My great grandfather was Edmund son of Mary Ann Warburton who was born in Bowdon. I have been trying to trace pre her father Josiah as there has been some family speculation about being related to Sir Peter Warburton - which I think is unlikley!! I am pretty sure on one of the census docs that Emma and another sibling were staying with Josiah and his wife - poss Elizabeth. I dont have my info with me at present. sorry!

It's been great reading your progress, I had given up having got rather stuck!!

[ShaunJ]

Welcome aboard Julie. I'll send you a PM.

[Balishark]

Hi guys

Just started doing some research again into my family tree and Googled John Warburton Rigby (my paternal grandfather) to see what might happen, and this thread came up.  Frederick Thomas Rigby was my grandfather's brother and I was able to trace Clara and Ellen from the Whitehead family bible which I have.  John Warburton Rigby married Ruth Helena Kerr and had one son, my father, who was also John Warburton Rigby.  I have various Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates for my grandparents and also some documents relating to Frederick Thomas Rigby, oh and of course the Whitehead family bible.

Any info I can help with please just ask and I'll do all I can to help.

Ali

[ShaunJ]

Hi Ali, and welcome to Rootschat.

I'll send you a PM with my contact details.

If I've got this right, the connections with my family are through (1) your great aunt Ellen Rigby who married my great grandfather Joseph Bradbury (his second wife) and (2) your great grandfather Thomas Rigby, Ellen's father, whose second wife was Joseph's sister Annie Bradbury.

[Su]

My great grandparents are buried in Bowden Parish Chruch cemetary, and the vicar very kindly looked up their grave number and showed us on a map roughly where it was.  Sadly we didn't find it as it was covered in brambles and grass, but at least we knew where it was.

[wightlady]

My Great grandmother is buried at Bowdon Church .
I got a grave number and it took a long time to find it scratching away grass from the corners to find the number. There were very few cleared at that time.
The churchyard has been cleared of brambles now and lots of stones have been cleaned so it might be worth another look.